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# Kong Lunch & Learn Series Melbourne

Event Ended
June 26, 2025
Workshop Space at Hub Southern Cross
696 Bourke Street, Melbourne, 3000

## Unlocking API Product Success: Real-World Lessons from PEXA

Discover how leading organisations like PEXA are redefining API strategy—from self-service and automation to product mindset and cloud migration. Whether you're modernising legacy systems, scaling API programs, or exploring what's next in the API landscape (AI Gateway, Event Gateway, MCP Servers), this session is designed to give you actionable insights.

**What You’ll Learn:**

**PEXA Use Case: API Strategy in Practice. **Hear from the team at PEXA as they share:

  • - How they define and manage API Products
  • - How they’ve enabled automation and self-service
  • - Their journey migrating from Kong Enterprise to Konnect
  • - The ROI and operational benefits of the transition
  • - Their take on Kong’s new Dev Portal and what’s next
  • - Key capabilities of the Kong platform
  • - Deployment models: self-managed, hybrid, and SaaS (Konnect)
  • - Governance, security, and scalability benefits
  • - A glimpse into the future: Kong’s AI Gateway, Event Gateway, and MCP Servers

**Kong Platform Overview. **Led by Rami El-Nasser, Solutions Engineer at Kong, this session will walk through:

  • - Key capabilities of the Kong platform
  • - Deployment models: self-managed, hybrid, and SaaS (Konnect)
  • - Governance, security, and scalability benefits
  • - A glimpse into the future: Kong’s AI Gateway, Event Gateway, and MCP Servers


Who should attend?

This event is open to everyone, but API Product Managers, Architects, Senior Engineers, and Heads of Engineering will get the most value from the strategic and technical insights being shared.

**Reserve your spot now and join us for insights, networking, and a great lunch — on us!**

## Agenda (Tentative)

10 minsWelcome & Networking
30 minsPEXA Case Study & Q&A
25 minsKong Platform Overview (Rami El-Nasser)
15 minsFuture Roadmap & Open Discussion
15 minsWrap-Up & Lunch

## Presented By

Rami El-Nasser
Solutions Engineer, Kong Inc.
Rupesh Papneja
Principal Engineer, PEXA

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